OBITUARIES
William Wright Hughes
Aug 28, 2025
William Wright Hughes, 78, passed away surrounded by family on August 28th, 2025. Bill was born on January 5, 1947 to Mary Wright Hughes and William Francis Hughes. He was the youngest child with four older sisters who adored him. He had a wonderful childhood in Holladay, UT with many adventures. Bill graduated from Olympus High School in 1965. He...
Keith Robert Welch
Aug 28, 2025
Keith Robert Welch, 71, of South Weber, Utah, graduated this life on the morning of August 28, 2025. He was born May 19, 1954 in Salt Lake City to Caryol Johnson and Samuel Hughes Welch. He was the third of six children. He was raised in Farmington, Utah.
Keith graduated from Davis High School in 1972. He was very proud to...
William Joseph "Bill" McGowan
Aug 27, 2025
William Joseph “Bill” McGowan, Jr., 76, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, August 27th, surrounded by loving family and friends. After surviving lymphoma and a heart attack earlier in his life, Bill ultimately succumbed to the effects of bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma), which he was diagnosed with in May of this year.
Bill’s family would like to extend their deepest...
Randol Eugene Morris
Aug 27, 2025
Randol Eugene Morris, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend, passed away peacefully on August 27, 2025. He was born on August 30, 1957, in Lynwood, California, to his parents, Orvin Eugene "Gene" Morris and Norma Louise "Lou" Cummings.
Randol, known for his humor, mischief and perseverance, married the love of his life and high school sweetheart, Elizabeth Ann...
Jerry L. Vander Meyden
Aug 27, 2025
Our father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Jerry L Vander Meyden passed away Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Jerry was born to Henry “Hank” Vander Meyden and Margia Lawson on July 24, 1944. He met the love of his life, Lucile Trowbridge, in second grade, promising her the next year that he would marry her someday. Even though they ran around in different...
Donald Lynn Fernelius
Aug 26, 2025
Donald Lynn Fernelius, age 83, passed away in his home in West Bountiful, UT on August 26, 2025.
Lynn was born on March 22, 1942 in Salt Lake City, UT to Donald and Kathryn (Sorenson) Fernelius. He grew up in Salt Lake City, West Layton and Bountiful, UT where he graduated from Bountiful High School.
He immediately joined the military and served...
Earl Henry Nielsen
Aug 26, 2025
Earl Henry Nielsen was born March 17, 1935, in Brigham City, Utah, to Carl Henry Nielsen and Jennie Marble Nielsen. Earl was raised in Brigham City where during his early years he spent summers helping his grandfather on his fruit farm in Perry and Brigham City. His early education was in Brigham City. During those early years attending Box Elder...
James Eugene Russon
Aug 25, 2025
This obituary was written in its entirety (except for a few additions) by Jim, himself.
James E Russon DDS MPH left earth for his next stop on August 25, 2025, from complications of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. He was born James Eugene Russon to parents Joseph Eugene Russon and Ila May Maughan on May 17, 1949, in Oakland, California.
Jim’s father Gene was a...
Phillip Lloyd Kennington
Aug 24, 2025
Phillip Lloyd Kennington passed away peacefully on August 24, 2025, at the age of 95. He was born June 18, 1930, in Star Valley, Wyoming. He was the oldest child of six born to George Harvey Kennington and Virginia Rosina Beyeler. He spent most of his first 18 summers herding cattle with his father and two brothers between Star Valley...
Gary Lon Christensen
Aug 24, 2025
Gary Lon Christensen passed away on Sunday, August 24th, surrounded by his loving family after a recent illness.
He is survived by his loving wife, Julie, of 34 years, his children and daughter-in-law, Jake, Josh, Isaac (Elle), and his siblings Lona Lee (Rex) Estes, Gayla (Don) Bradshaw, Kris (Maxine), and Rex (Debra) Christensen, and many nieces and nephews.
He was welcomed into...
Stephen Dee Linge
Aug 23, 2025
Our beloved treasured Stephen Dee Linge, passed away at the age of 48 on August 23, 2025. Our loving father, brother, son, uncle and friend will be forever missed. Stephen was born on September 9, 1976, in Murray, UT to Dee Thomas Linge and Diann Fisher Linge. Stephen graduated in 1995 from Murray High School, and was an asset for...
Linda Kay Scott
Aug 23, 2025
Linda Kay Scott passed away peacefully in her sleep on Saturday, August 23, 2025, at the age of 80.
Linda was born March 13, 1945, to Clifton Alfred May and Hazel Hammon May. She had five siblings: Sharon, LuDene, Ron, Bob and Dave.
Linda was raised in Heyburn, Idaho. She attended elementary school in Heyburn, where she made lifelong friends and where...
Veronica Eve Foster
Aug 23, 2025
Veronica Eve Foster, our beautiful and adored mother, grandmother, wife, and friend, passed peacefully into the loving arms of her Heavenly Father on Saturday, August 23, 2025, at the age of 73, after a courageous battle with leukemia.
She was born on July 22, 1952, in Sacramento, California, to Joseph Hickman and Ethel Croff. She married her sweetheart, John Foster, in...
Michael E. Jensen
Aug 22, 2025
Michael Eugene Jensen, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, passed away suddenly on August 22, 2025, due to cardiac arrest, at the age of 67 while at the family cabin in Island Park, Idaho—a place he deeply loved. His passing was unexpected but peaceful, surrounded by his wife and the serenity of the mountains he cherished.
Born on October 14, 1957,...
Helen Jean Crowther
Aug 22, 2025
Helen Jean Crowther “Jean” passed away on Thursday, August 22, 2025, from complications of stomach cancer.
Jean is survived by her husband, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 30, 2025, at the Bountiful 31st Ward, 585 East Center Street, Bountiful, Utah, where a visitation will be held from 9:30-10:30 a.m. prior...
Jane Rogers Wirthlin Parker
Aug 22, 2025
Jane Rogers Wirthlin Parker passed away peacefully in her sleep on the morning of August 22, 2025. Jane was born May 27, 1942, to Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin and Elisa Young Rogers Wirthlin. She was the oldest of eight children, brother Joseph B. (Kathy) Wirthlin, Jr., and sisters, Ann (Kent) Farnsworth, Madeline (Michael) Stover, Rebecca (Bryan) Gerritsen, Carol (Scott) Ward,...
Kristen Call Satchwell
Aug 22, 2025
Kristen Call Satchwell peacefully passed away Friday afternoon August 22, 2025 following a 12-month valiant fight against Glioblastoma brain cancer. Kristen was 58 years old. She graduated from mortality with high honors!! She was surrounded by her loving mother, siblings, spouse, children, grandchildren, and hosts of angels who welcomed her into the next life with open arms and cheers and...
Braxton James Jenson
Aug 20, 2025
We all know that one person who could walk into a room without knowing anyone yet leave knowing everyone. That was Braxton. He was the one whose smile was contagious, whose laugh you couldn’t help but join in on, and whose heart was so genuine you’d feel at ease the moment you’re around him. Friends and family were his center...
Charles Elliott Hall
Aug 20, 2025
Charles Elliott Hall returned to his heavenly home on August 20, 2025.
He was born in St Louis, Missouri, on January 14, 1945, to Robert Hubert Hall and Edith Thorson Hall, while his father was in medical school.
From an early age onward, he loved music. He sang in various choirs, and learned how to play the piano, organ, guitar, banjo and...
Keith Garrett Hepler
Aug 19, 2025
Keith Garrett Hepler, 84, passed away peacefully on August 19, 2025, at his home in Farmington, UT.
Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania to Kenneth and Dorothy (Adams) Hepler, Keith grew up in Greensburg and graduated from Greensburg Salem High School in 1958. He immediately joined the Air Force and began his life-long career of military service in basic training at Lackland Air...
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